MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'firms'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:48:34 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4902474&cid=t_103208_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fdrug-firms-cut-vaccine-prices-in-developing-world.html Drug firms cut vaccine prices in developing world – This is good news: Several major drugs companies have announced big cuts to the amounts they charge for their vaccines in the developing world. GSK, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi-Aventis have agreed to cut prices through the international vaccine alliance Gavi. I can think of one problem, however, aside from the antivax conspiracy theory nonsens that will arise, and that's the potential for blackmarket profiteering… Related Posts:H5N1 Vaccine AvailableBird Flu VaccineNeedle free bird flu vaccineEradicating polioThe push and pull of third world drugsCut-price vax for developing world is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog (Source: Sciencebase Science Blog) Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4902474 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:00:06 +0100 4902474 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883559&cid=t_103208_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQKoKs62b_gE%2F By Daniel IkensonThe Cato Institute today published its 13th policy paper on the topic of antidumping. “Economic Self-Flagellation: How U.S. Antidumping Policy Subverts the National Export Initiative” describes with compelling anecdotes and data how the outdated assumptions of a 90-year-old law—one purported to “level the playing field” and protect U.S. companies from “unfair” foreign competition—conspire with its overzealous application to erode the competitiveness of U.S. firms. During the decade from January 2000 through December 2009, the U.S. government imposed 164 antidumping measures on a variety of products from dozens of countries. A total of 130 of those 164 measures restricted (and in most cases, still restrict) imports of intermediate goo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883559 Tue, 31 May 2011 15:29:28 +0100 4883559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4272370&cid=t_103208_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F18%2Fthe-double-binded-situation-of-even-women-lawyers%2F From Newsweek: Of some 700 female lawyers surveyed, more than half of equity partners and two-thirds of income and minority partners say they are dissatisfied with the way compensation was determined at their firms—compared to nearly three-quarters of men who reported high levels of satisfaction with those systems, according to an earlier study. Complaints include a lack of diversity within compensation committees, a lack of wage transparency, and too much weight given to factors such as billable hours and too little to institutional investments like developing a firm’s human capital and nurturing young associates. Female lawyers also reported being stymied by the “double bind,” saying that for women it’s virtually impossible to be simultaneously respected and w... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4272370 Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:01:07 +0100 4272370 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071137&cid=t_103208_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F0Ro4uvhCvlk%2F By Ilya ShapiroMany law firms are asking their incoming first-year associates to defer their start dates (from a few months to a full year) and are offering stipends to these deferred associates to work at public interest organizations. Cato has been running a deferred associates program for the last few months and we are now extending it for as long as top-notch candidates want to ride out the economy with us. The Cato Institute invites third-year law students and others facing firm deferrals to apply to work at our Center for Constitutional Studies. This is an opportunity to assist projects ranging from Supreme Court amicus briefs to policy papers to the Cato Supreme Court Review. Start and end dates are flexible. Interested students and graduates should email a cover letter, resume, tra... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071137 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:35:19 +0100 3071137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452380&cid=t_103208_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQqeN183F-9U%2F  The current Attorney General, Eric Holder, left DC’s Covington and Burling to return to the Justice Department, where he held a senior post during the Clinton years.  Holder’s mission is to supposedly ”rein in the free market excesses of the last eight years.”  Bush’s people are done with their own crackdown and are now returning to DC’s big law firms to warn their client business firms about the coming crackdown by Holder’s prosecutors.  This is sorta like the GOP legislators who are now trying to lodge complaints about Obama’s spending.  Despite the rhetoric, both sides aggrandize federal power and then enrich themselves (pdf) while advising businesspeople on how to comply with myriad regulations  from the alphabet agencies. F... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452380 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:38:51 +0100 2452380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1747152&cid=t_103208_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F31%2Fthe-learning-situation-at-law-firms-abstract%2F This article examines the multiple workplace influences, including mentors and other developmental relationships, on the growth and development of young lawyers from law school through the first few years of practice. Eleven lawyers in six different large multi-service law firms located in a major Canadian city participated in the research. Three primary methods were used: an in-depth interview, brief questionnaires on mentoring behaviors and practices, and the Role Construct Repertory Test. Learning occurred within a richly diverse field of influences, including mentors, supervisors, senior lawyers, peers, and clients. These relationships strongly affected the invitational qualities of the workplace in terms of access to work and support for learning. Learning was not separated from work,... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1747152 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:30:59 +0100 1747152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1544144&cid=t_103208_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F24%2Fthe-situation-of-lawyers-and-practicing-law%2F The Situationist has examined various implications that social psychology and related fields for law and legal theory. But what about for the practice of law? Martin Seligman, former American Psychological Association president and one of the leaders of the new field of Positive Psychology, examines the relationship between psychology and the practice of law in his fascinating book Authentic Happiness. Here are some relevant excerpts. * * * Thirty years ago, the cognitive revolution in psychology overthrew both Freud and the behaviorists, at least in academia. Cognitive scientists demonstrated that thinking can be an object of science, that it is measurable, and most importantly that it is not just a reflection of emotion or behavior. Aaron T. Beck, the leading theorist of cognitive thera... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1544144 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:01:35 +0100 1544144 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=482006&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fspecial-effort.html Apparently it might snow tomorrow.This means I will have to leave the house well before 6am to get to theatre at 8 promptly whilst also allowing for train delays.Tomorrow is pretty much all day in theatre, which I'm looking forward to, especially if it's our surgical reg operating along with the other cool consultant who gave me and another student some random teaching last week.I've made up my mind to be as nice and as respectful as possible to AAA so that she has no excuse to tell me off for breathing too loudly or slouching in theatre.I've also made up my mind that although I'm not on a vascular surgery rotation, I REALLY want to see the repair of an AAA (this time I mean an abdominal aortic aneurysm!) although this may be a little optimistic, as it's usually a surgical emergency and I ... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=482006 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:43:00 +0100 482006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479374&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fno-internet-ergo-cannot-function.html Arrgh!My Internet at home has completely screwed up and refuses to work.I can sit on the floor of the kitchen near the breakfast bar and pick up an unsecured wireless connection (thank you, PhilP85! I hope that I'm not slowing your connection down too much.) but the signal is fleeting and it does not run fast enough.There are so many things that I need to sort out today, that it's unbelievable. Accommodation, for one. For my placement that begins, uh, TOMORROW. Not to mention my possible summer jobs, e-mails to some tutors about my possible BSc change, my laptop insurance, the return of my cardiac monitor, the writing of a manifesto and a visit to the bank, and I think that fills my morning up pretty well, thank you.Ok, now to phone once again for accommodation. Let us see how things pan o... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479374 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:41:00 +0100 479374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479375&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Ffurther-accommodation-woes.html Just to sum up all my accommodation woes in one, rant-filled post. Well, not too rant-filled. It's too early in the day and I've just gotten back from a great run to be too stressed. But, seeing as I'm so fond of lists, here goes:I realise in October that my final rotation beginning in March will be in a hospital, St. Elsewhere, far out from central London and I will need accommodation.A student living very close to me tells me that he got accommodation at St. Elsewhere because the commute was too long to handle. He tells me to e-mail the teaching director for St. Elsewhere and ask. Not too early, but definitely not too late either.I wait til late November and e-mail the teaching director. Let's call her MW. I compose a very eloquent e-mail explaining my problem, also mentioning (subtly) t... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479375 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:35:00 +0100 479375 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479377&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fend-of-era-again.html So today was officially my last day of my medical rotation at this wonderful teaching hospital in a beautiful area with awesome House Officers and cool consultants and generally speaking nice patients.I got thank you cards for everyone on my team - a funky glittery one for my House Officer, a fairly standard one for my Senior House Officer, a Chinese-silk printed one for my Registrar and a subdued but classy cream and gold embossed card for my Consultant. Oh, not forgetting a joint tasteful artistic card from me and the other students for professor Mebbe (the Scottish one whom I've grown to really like,) and one for the clinical skills tutor, who must have spent half her life teaching me to suture. Prof Mebbe winked when he received it and said that we were a great bunch.It was kinda weird... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479377 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:40:00 +0100 479377 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479378&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fsuturing-meister-says-her-premature.html Yesterday, we had a revison session in the Clinical Skills Laboratory. I sat down next to a fake arm, tried to suture a wound and ended up very flustered with virtually ischaemic digits.I love the clinical skills teacher. She was so sweet and patient. She sat down next to me and spent the next fifteen minutes watching and guiding me at suturing. Finally, she suggested we do a mock-OSCE run-through of a suturing station, and she watched me suture.By the end of five minutes, I had put in not one but four perfectly aligned, equally spaced, exquisite sutures on to a fake skin pad with enough time left over to make some small talk with the fake patient.I don't know who was prouder of the sutures - myself or the wonderful clinical skills tutor.She gave me a massive hug, told me to have a little ... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479378 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:31:00 +0100 479378 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479379&cid=t_103208_93_f&fid=34891&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshortwhitecoats.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fmock-osces.html Last week, our teaching hospital organised a mini mock OSCE exam for the third years. There were four stations - ECG interpretation, cannulation, a per-rectal exam and a suturing station.Overall, I did well.The PR exam was my first one, which was easy enough. I diagnosed a bilateral carcinoma of the prostate in the fake bum with relative ease.I somehow managed to blag my way through the ECG station and picked up full marks. Just before I went into the room, a friend mumbled to me, "It's an inferior MI (myocardial infarction.) Make sure you pick up the ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF." I was in too much of a state trying to remember the normal length of a QRS complex and thinking about torsades de pointes to take in anything that he said to me, and his gem of information went complete... Of Short White Coats and Stethoscopes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479379 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:19:00 +0100 479379